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News The US arm of international bank HSBC is also giving one million contactless debit cards to customers before the end of the year. Very important high level payments will still be done over direct debit. [11 Oct 2005]
Chip and PIN heads for cyberspace
News Chip and PIN debit and credit cards have all but conquered the high street and will soon be taking on internet fraudsters. As most of us have more that one card in our wallets and purses that means 83 per cent of us will... [27 Sep 2005]
Building society banks on chip and PIN
Case Study Norwich and Peterborough Building Society (N&P) has kicked off the rollout of chip and PIN cards to replace magnetic strip debit cards for more than 100,000 account holders. We've got 105,000 debit cards... [27 Sep 2005]
Gartner: PayPal threatens banking business
News Although credit [and] debit card companies could enter this market simply by lowering merchant transaction fees, these companies don't have the PayPal advantage of funding payments from PayPal stored accounts, as well as... [15 Sep 2005]
Gartner: $2.75bn lost to card fraud
News Three million consumers in America were victims of fraud involving ATM and debit cards, according to the company's research. Avivah Litan, vice president and research director at Gartner, said in a statement: "Criminals... [03 Aug 2005]
Half of Brits don't have all chip and PIN cards
News Less than half of Britons have received chip and PIN replacements for all their credit and debit cards, according to new research which reveals the rollout of the technology is "slower than expected". [19 Jul 2005]
Payments giant saves £2.5m with new network
Case Study Voca provides the technology behind the direct debit system in the UK and its payment infrastructure is used by 100,000 businesses, banks and government agencies. For example, last month the Association... [07 Jul 2005]
Banks must boost security to drive online banking
News Only 30 per cent of those interviewed were confident of the security of personal financial information such as credit and debit card numbers when used to make transactions online. Banks must compensate... [29 Mar 2005]
'Shoulder-surfing' chip and PIN fraud fear dismissed
News Over the last year banks and retailers have been replacing customers' existing magnetic strip credit and debit cards with new chipped cards and point of sale terminals that use a four-digit PIN code... [08 Nov 2004]
Northampton's chip and PIN 'high street of the future'
News Chip and PIN is a scheme for credit and debit cards where cardholders are required to enter a PIN into a keypad instead of signing a receipt at the checkout of shops. Remembering PINs is also not proving to be a problem... [16 Sep 2004]
Leader: Ready or not, here comes chip and PIN
Leader There has been much debate over the security of providing a PIN versus a signature as a form of identification when making purchases with a credit or debit card. There has also been criticism of why it's being done - is... [11 Aug 2004]
Britons just not ready for chip and PIN
News Chip and PIN is a scheme for credit and debit cards whereby cardholders are required to enter a PIN into a keypad instead of signing when making purchases at shops or in restaurants. Though banks need to... [11 Aug 2004]
Will's Web Watch: 'Kids are gambling... quick, blame the web!'
Comment Note the criticism is not of the banks issuing children as young as 11 with debit cards and not the government which almost a decade into the internet gambling boom is still to introduce its Gambling Act. [27 Jul 2004]
UK bookies blamed for underage gambling
News The problem rests with children being able to set up accounts online with a whole host of bookies using their Solo debit cards, which banks now distribute to children as young as 11. Currently Abbey... [27 Jul 2004]
Phishing is fastest growing form of consumer theft
News The analyst, who said she endured her own brush with criminals when someone stole her personal information and used it to make purchases on a debit card, suggested that a simple way for companies to create safer bonds... [16 Jun 2004]
